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... but it was all very easy to find. We checked our bags in and then went into departures. The first thing that hit me was.....shopping! The other thing that hits you is it is sooooo hot! We bought our breakfast from Pret a Menger, a croissant and coffee, also some sandwiches and crisp for the flight. I just love people watching and we soon spotted the first beep beep,s and Sarah pointed out you always get a fat one and a tall one! We ...

... with taxis and the road led out of the airport and onto a motorway! Looking at Google maps (thank heaven for Google!) we found we were although not far from our destination but would not be able to walk so decided to take a taxi. £9.00 got us a really plush car with an Indian driver. He was very smart and we almost felt important in the plush black leather seats. We arrived at The Corner House Hotel in Horley to find it was really lovely and the staff were very ...

... and keep up with all the exciting things we are doing. But in addition, they are a personal record for me of my travels, so I can look back and remember what I saw, the things I did, the people I met and how I felt.

Essentially then, it may thus turn out that these blogs are just full of inside jokes, seemingly random stories and pointless, uninteresting details. If this is the case, then I am sorry. But also not sorry. You are ...

... to stay initially and I have also made an alternate plan if I can't go from Portsmouth but have to do the Newhaven Dieppe run. I also didn't realise that one of the bits of paper I need to book caravan sites in Europe runs from January to January so I am having to wait until the 2015 version is available. Hopefully I may be able to buy it around now but then it will have to be posted to me and I will have to hang around until I get it. I ...

... lot more about her and her family. Her husband was in the bombing raid on Arnhem and coined the phrase "A Bridge Too Far".

Then across to Dartmoor and Princetown, site of H.M. Prison for really bad criminals! Met up with old friends Jo and Andrew for lunch at The Plume of Feathers pub, where I had been many times in the past when I lived nearby. ...